Curtain and shade support.



No. 820,547. PATENTED MAY 15, 1906. 0. L. BIXLBR.

CURTAIN AND SHADE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 20, 1905.

Witnesses Inventor UHALBIXLER {5 flwim Bg m ORA L. BIXLER, OF SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS.

CURTAIN AND SHADE SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.

Application filed November 20, 1905. Serial No. 288,207.

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORA L. BIXLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Sangamon and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Curtain and Shade Support, of which the following is such a full, clear, and exact description as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use my said invention.

The purposes of my invention are to pro- Vide a curtain and shade support so constructed and arranged that the curtain-rod and the shade-roller will both be supported on one pair of brackets, the curtain-rod being supported somewhat above the shaderoller, so that the curtain will completely conceal the shade-roller and connections; to provide brackets ada ted to support a curtain-rod lying in IlOtGIEGS in the upper part of the brackets; to provide brackets having expansible pins adapted to fit in holes of different sizes in curtain-rods to provide means for supporting the curtain so that it will project laterally beyond the shade and to provide simple and effective means for strengthening the bracket.

With these ends in view my invention consists in the novel features of construction and arrangement of parts shown in the annexed drawings, to which reference is hereby'made, and hereinafter particularly described, and finally recited in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figures 1 and 3 are, respectively, perspective views of a right-hand bracket and a left-hand bracket. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a modified form of the right-hand bracket, and Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line 4'4 of Fig. 1.

Similar reference-numerals designate like parts in the several views.

The brackets are formed from light metal, substantially as shown, and are made in pairs, right and left.

Each of the brackets is an integral structure comprising an upwardly-curved part 1 and a laterally-extending part 2 at right angles to the part 1. The part 2 has holes 3 to accommodate screws or nails for securing the bracket on the window-casing. The part 1 of the right-hand bracket has a rectangular notch 5 to accommodate the gudgeon of a shade-roller, and the left-hand bracket has a corresponding hole 6 to receive the spindle of the shade-roller. At the upper end of the part 1 is a semicircular notch 4, in which the curtain-rod may lie, and adjacent to the notch 4 is an upwardly-extending finger 7. The finger 7 is tapering and is of angular cross-section. The finger 7 is used with ourtain-rods having diametric holes in which the fingers fit. the part 1, and the members of the finger may be pressed together or spread apart, as may be most convenient to fit them to holes of different sizes in the curtain-rods used with the bracket.

The curtain-rods commonly used are metal tubes, one telescoping within the other, and the tubes have diametric holes in which pins or other devices for supporting the curtainrod fit. The curtain-rod is not a part of this invention and is therefore not shown.

The brackets herein shown and described are adapted 'to support on their edges a cylindrical curtain-rod lying in the notches, or to support a rod having diametric holes in which the fingers 7 fit.

' A rib 8, pressed in the metal of the part 1, gives strength and rigidity to the part 1.

In the modified form of the bracket (shown in Fig. 2) the part 1 has an intermediate bend 9, Which causes the upper part of the bracket to extend laterally beyond its lower part, so that the curtain roller, mounted in the notches 4 or on the fingers 7, as the case may be, will project at both ends beyond the ends of the shade-roller supported in the notches 5 and the hole 6, so that the curtain supported on the curtain-rod will completely conceal the shaderoller.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a bracket, the combination of a member attachable to the window-casing'an upwardly-extending member at right angles to said first-named member and extending above same, a notch at the upper end of said upwardly-extending member, and an expansible finger on said upwardly-extending member'and contiguous .to said notch.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, at Springfield, Illinois, this 25th day of September, 1905.

ORA L. BIXLER.

Witnesses:

N. DU BQIS, J. E. BIXLER.

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